Is Facebook down in your area?

Across the UK there have been multiple reports of Facebook outages. Last night, the social media giant - which boasts over 2 billion active users - announced services were down around the globe.

In a statement Facebook said: “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble connecting to Facebook and Instagram. We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologise for any inconvenience,”

However, on Friday morning many were still experiencing problems accessing their newsfeed.

Any posts published to Facebook are currently reaching a maximum of two users, which greatly affects the amount of articles, videos and other content consumed.

Popular social media scheduling tool SocialFlow began to send out automatic error messages late last night, after reporting that a two-hour window of scheduled maintenance had been completed.

The updates told publishers that posts had failed to send “due to trouble getting a response from Facebook”. In fact, the posts are publishing, but receiving little to no engagement.

‘Highest priority’

Facebook’s head of news partnerships, Nick Wrenn, acknowledged the malfunction when responding to The Guardian’s Chris Moran this morning on Twitter.

“Any help?” Moran wrote, after highlighting that online publishers including The Guardian, Bloomberg and HuffPost were all affected by the Facebook outage.